Shirley Horn was considered one of the great jazz singers of the nineteen fifties and sixties. She was often compared to the famous singers Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan. She performed for more than fifty years. Shirley Horn's [...]
Musician and singer James Ambrose Johnson, Jr., better known as Ricj James, was born on February 1, 1948, in Buffalo, New York. The third of eight children, Rick James was raised in a strict Catholic household by his single mother. [...]
Ray Anderson born October 16, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits [...]
Malik Isaac Taylor born November 20, 1970, better known by his stage name Phife Dawg, is an American rapper of Trinidadian descent, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip and Ali [...]
Peggy Lee was an American jazz singer, songwriter and actress whose career spanned six decades. In 1942 Lee had her first 1 hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place." Peggy Lee grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota to Marvin, a [...]
Singer. Born Patricia Louise Holte on May 24, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents Henry Holte, a railroad worker, and Bertha Robinson Holte, a homemaker. A shy girl, Patricia gained confidence through her singing, which she did every Sunday in [...]
Whitfield was a native of Harlem, New York, and spent much of his teen years in local pool halls. In his late teens, he and his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, so that his father could join his sister and [...]
Neil Percival Young was born in Toronto, Canada on 12 November 1945. His father, Scott Alexander Young was a journalist and sportswriter who would later rise to prominence in Canada for his work.His mother, Edna Blow Ragland "Rassy" Young was [...]
Nathaniel Adderley always had a flare for music. In fact, he began playing the trumpet when he was just a teenage boy in 1946. Four years later, he switched to the smaller cornet.From 1951-53 he played in the U.S. Army [...]
Miles Davis was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. Davis was influenced by his blues pianist mother to play the piano at an early age, but he instead chose to go with his father’s preference, the trumpet. His [...]